The Charlton Foundation is a small family non-profit set up in 2012 by Randal Charlton
Randal Charlton has had a long and varied career in journalism and business. .
In 2011, he was a winner of a national Purpose Prize in the USA, for his work in helping to rebuild the Detroit economy. In 2007 he won the National Heimlich Award for medical research. He has been recognized as an "Entrepreneur of the Year" and won three national prizes in the U.K. for technical journalism.
Randal has given numerous talks about the valuable contribution that older adults can make to economic growth, including a TED talk about the importance of confidence in business success.
Aside from his lifelong interest in journalism, Randal has been CEO of two public companies and confesses to being a serial entrepreneur. He lived the first half of his life in England and moved to the United States in 1987, bringing with him a passion for education that he shares with his father, the subject of a biography entitled "The Wicked Pilgrim" he has written.
For the last twenty years Randal has made Michigan his home and worked in Detroit, a city that he loves.
Randal is working on two other books, one about his experiences in Detroit in the great recession of 2008, and another about his early life growing up on a farm in Devon, England.
Randal Charlton's biography of his father Warwick Charlton, "The Wicked Pilgrim" is published by Three Sisters Publishing Ltd.
A portion of the revenues from the sale of the book will be devoted to The Mayflower Scholarship Fund.
Randal Charlton has had a long and varied career in journalism and business. . 
